Commercial Territory Design for a Distribution Firm with New Constructive and Destructive Heuristics
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Commercial Territory Design for a Distribution Firm with New Constructive and Destructive Heuristics
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1875-6891,1875-6883
DOI: 10.1080/18756891.2012.670526